In the Mykolaiv region of Ukraine, mine sweepers from the Halo Trust found more than 1,500 explosives scattered around 10 hectares in just one week. This humanitarian NGO has been operating in Ukraine since 2015 to clear out landmines and other explosive devices. They now mainly work in the Kharkiv and Mykolaiv regions.
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said in a report in April 2022 that at least 102 civilians were killed and 288 others injured by landmines and other explosive weapons in Myanmar since the coup.
Landmines from the 19-month Tigray conflict are making the record-breaking drought that herders are facing in Ethiopia’s Afar region’s northwest even deadlier. Despite the drought, people are reluctant to go fetch water because of the deaths of children and livestock caused by landmines
Ukraine is now one of the world’s most heavily mined countries, according to the United Nations. Pyrotechnicians are currently disarming hundreds of mines per day in territory that Russia no longer controls
Global nonprofit organization in Tanzania has developed innovative method using African giant pouched rats to detect landmines and tuberculosis using their extraordinary sense of smell
The Great Mosque of al-Nuri in old Mosul was built in the 12th century. It held a symbolic importance for IS, as it was used by the terror group’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in 2014 to declare the plan for a so-called caliphate